Guild Wars 2

I feel you, OP. At least it will be gone at the end of a the month. And only be an annual thing.

One month of Halloween coming soon. xD

The best part is that they will heal her!

xD

ProxyDamage.9826:

Yeah, immobilizes would absolutely murder the challenge.

That said, I wish they had included it in the descriptions (or somewhere), that they were immune to immobilizes. Almost lost my first fight ever because I expected the guy to be immobilized at a critical moment, and he just ran through it.

I tried to block. Got owned.

Don’t play a ranger

CETheLucid.3964:

Manoa posted salaries with visas going back to 2006 where the lowest salary (in 2006) was 35K for the Chinese localization specialist.

There have been big changes at Anet since 2006, read the detailed personal accounts at my link. But we’re getting off topic, I don’t want to get this thread scrubbed.

CETheLucid.3964:

Lucky.9421:

48k for QA? lol no..

Try 28k to 33k. And that’s in Bellevue. An expensive part of the country.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/ArenaNet-Salaries-E255820.htm

Sure buddy.

Link has statements from Anet employees themselves, rather than being just some article from a gaming site. Which is what your link was.

CETheLucid.3964:

Hi. I thought I’d drop a little perspective into your hyperbole. Free of charge.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/04/03/how-much-do-game-developers-make
http://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-garbage-collector-jobs.html

48k for QA? lol no..

Try 28k to 33k. And that’s in Bellevue. An expensive part of the country.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/ArenaNet-Salaries-E255820.htm

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Hopefully we’ll see CPU’s doing a bit more work. It pains me to see it use only 40% of its full capacity.

Seriously. It’s 2013.

Though, to be fair, they started working on GW2 in 2007.

Queen Jenna = Final Villain

You heard it here first.

GW1’s story was also all over the place in Prophecies an Factions. It wasn’t until Nightfall where it all kind of tied together.

It just seems like Anet’s style.

It is still a little wonky, IMO, but it works.

ilr.9675:

You’re serious? … the 4 Horsemen, AND their pack of 20 Dryders on both sides, and the 6-8 Dhuum Skellies that also piled in with them?… blinding spellcasters? what is this I don’t even… You must have done it way before they changed everything by adding Dhuum and the Extra Dryders (also this …which was just as bad usually)

A spirit spammer also worked. Which we used. I thought you were with us back then. Don’t you remember ilr?

MauricioCezar.2673:

Its RNG, what did you expect?

You had just spend 400G betting in your luck. Almost a precursor, so… you are doing things wrong. Soon A-net will introduce a form to craft precursors, so… stop wasting Gold guy.

As with real life gambling, you are likely to spend more putting in than getting out.

Working as intended. :P

Another thing is try not to get bummed out if it doesn’t go so easy. That’s just how things are. If you let it get you down, you can’t improve your situation.

PS – Just keep at it.

Soon™

People come and go. Try finding a guild that has been around a while. Don’t forget to reach out to guildies yourself. It is a two-way street.

It would be awesome. For one thing it would free them up a lot to be creative in the area of map design. Ever notice how pretty much every zone is a valley with mountains on 4 sides? xD

But as others have said, there are technical limits. There is streaming map tech that works for some games, but it is complicated and can not necessarily be applied to every game.

There are many champs in the various nooks and crannies of the world. Maybe if champs were daily, people would venture out into the world to get more champs? Right now they just grind around in a circle which is kinda lame. And if you go outside a popular circuit to farm lesser known champs, you will be hard pressed to find people around to do it with you.

I don’t think it is a bad idea really.

Boy this is a great thread. 9/10 would read again.

My two cents is that I think the “every two weeks” update plan is too much for the budget/time they have allotted. This results in very thin updates that have a lot of “repeat 100 of this” type content, because otherwise they wouldn’t have enough to say they added something substantial. The updates would be better if they dropped what was filler and kept just the strongest stuff.

I think the two week plan is just not going to work. Personally, I would rather the company go completely dark for a year and focus on an proper expansion and then I would surely buy that. I think most GW2 players would too. It worked for GW1.
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Consider this, we are almost 1 year from the release of GW2.

• 1 year from the release of Prophecies(GW1) was Factions

• Only 6 months from the release of Factions was Nightfall

• 10 months after the release of Nightfall was EoTN

^^^ That is why I became such a fan of Anet as a developer. Their record of consistent, solid updates to the IP was second to none. So what if it wasn’t every two weeks? The summation of these small multitudinous updates, which GW2 has added to the game in one year’s time, does not expand upon the franchise as much as Factions did with the same development time.

And, by the way, they still managed to do holiday events and added a new dungeon(Sorrow’s Furnace) just 4 months after release while working on Factions. So it wasn’t like they had to totally abandon Prophecies for a year.

That development strategy is the foundation upon which the franchise was built. That is what brought the success to even enable GW2 to be made in the first place. It is unfortunate to see Anet straying from that.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I’m not sure how it got missed in the patch notes, I know I wrote one. Sorry!

Previously, the event failed after X Pact NPC deaths. This meant that if you revived one of the NPCs, you could actually bring the event closer to failure if the NPC died again, so it was better to leave any dead NPCs behind and never revive them. It’s now based on the current total living Pact members, if they’re all dead at once, the event fails, but reviving the NPCs will cause the morale meter to rise. As long as one Pact NPC is alive, the event keeps running.

This is sound logic, but did you test how this actually played after making the change? The NPCs have paper thin tanks and this is a game where support healing is not that strong.

We are not playing with GW1 mechanics. Not that players loved protecting NPCS in that game either. >.>

colesy.8490:

I have still yet to run Fractals in a proper organised group.

Sigh.

Find a nice guild

obal.3218:

I used binding blades to pull it. Pulls work through defiant and interrupt it. I’d imagine pushes do the same.

Does that mean this can only be done with Guardian? I know warrior knockbacks do not work.

I will send you a mail in game. If for some reason the web application can not be filled out, anyone can mail me.

Today we did the full assortment of guild missions. Then Arah Story for those who needed it and the daily. Alongside some good old Pavilion farming for Queen’s Jubilee. 3 Liadri killers so far!

John Smith.4610:

You didn’t elect Evon, expect no sympathy from him.

YEP

How do you keep the the Ice ele from healing in the 15 second window? Was it luck, or something else?

Kuess.1842:

HELLO DEVS!

Instead of letting us die and die and die! Can you maybe go in with the following party and show us if you can do this dungeon? Make it a nice youtube. If you do we will stop complaining:

2 Warrior
1 Necro
1 Guardian
1 Engi

Please dont let us hang on this dungeon!!!!

We did this last night with:

2 Warrior
1 Necro
1 Ranger
1 Engi(lvl 66)

Those pro warrior reflects!

But yeah, dungeon is totally broke. :P

ilr.9675:

Yeah… pretty darned disappointing.

Now I’m definitely going to have to “Hire” fill-ins just to get this finished for DM.

I’d do it with you ilr. Hit up the [Liar] crew.

Is that the one with the hammer boss? I love that path. Too bad all anyone wants to do is p1/p3 xD

Edit – Oh wait, wrong dungeon. That’s the double golem path. Yeah having everyone on comms helps with that. Should be a 2 golder IMO

Is it longer or harder than any AC path?

Quam.7218:

Wait… let me chack my damage meter.

Bring back the Master of Damage! He will settle this.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Master_of_damage

If it’s sploitable, people will sploit.

The bosses are more fun now than the release versions too. Skelk are still a lame model for what are essentially ghouls though.

AC has been not bad since the rework. The reward is 1.5g which is unusually high for the speed and difficulty.

Seriously? I mean, I love endless hordes of spiders as much as the next person, but I think this path can easily be considered a 3 golder.

Upvote if you agree.

Alleluia.1320:

The Royal Terrace has a very nice looking design and is laid out believably.

An armorsmithing station that is just an anvil on a table? <.<

As opposed to the complete forges elsewhere with all the tools and everything set out.

World design and narrative takes a back seat to a cash shop trinket…

The Royal Terrace itself, with the merchants/stations within, isn’t even laid out in a believable way. I would rather use the crafting stations from release. At least they look cool and fit in the world, even the smaller ones out in the starting zones.

DeadlySynz.3471:

I’m quite surprised Ellen won myself. Everything I read, it should have been Evon by a landslide. Something is fishy.

I’m not. She is human, which creates a strong bias. Look at how much human player characters outnumber the other races, especially Charr.

I am actually impressed it was as close as it was. That just goes to show how many people wanted the Abbadon fractal.

Arathor.7419:

such a shame i actually thought we would had a good story or fractal for once.

I think there is an interesting story behind each fractal. They just don’t tell you what it is because that is the point. :P

I am sure either new fractal would have been similarly vague.

My point was Kiel voters felt less strongly about the fractal on average.

They should have had us vote on the content separately.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

That’s lovely.

And since that artist(and many others) are gone, that brings up a big question.

Can Anet really produce content like they used to? I think so, but they need to re-hire.

Maybe Abbadon would have forced them. :P

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Would you be as upset if your fractal would have won?

A lot less people would be upset. You are a rare one that really wanted the Reactor.

But yeah people would have been upset either way.

Here is a pic of pre-destruction Orr. Too bad the Artist, Tom Scholes, does not work at Anet anymore.

Shameless plug
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/cutthroat/Anet-No-Golems-pls/first#post2561277

Circling Skies.1872:

What I would like to see are more Fractals that deal with stuff that happened in between GW 1 and 2. It would also be cool to go back in time to Orr before its destruction so that I can see it in all its grandeur. There are tons of cool structures in Orr. I would love to see how they looked when they were built and being used.

That would be awesome. The concept art for pre-sinking Orr is really neat and majestic looking.

Kind of reminds me of The Hall of Heroes, but grander.

:o

Bookmarked for later reading.

I don’t know 48-52 is pretty close, but everyone knows that was mainly because of the fractal. If Kiel had Abbadon, it would have been a massacre. I would have voted for her.

For what it was worth, I enjoyed Evon’s character more, mainly for the hilarity of his voice lines. At least we’ll always have Southsun. Q__Q

“HAHAHA…one of you is an excellent survivor” xD

BTW, they haven’t started yet so it is not too late for it to go in any particular direction. I do hope it turns out well.

It really depends on how much they plan to invest into development. I’m going to go ahead and plug my thread. Hope you don’t mind.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/cutthroat/Anet-No-Golems-pls/first#post2561277

So I guess my follow up question is: How do you like your Golems? Spinny or Punchy?

GoldenTruth.2853:

Lucky.9421:

Do you think we will see a new map?

Yes

Lucky.9421:

Do you think we will see new enemies?

Very Likely

Well I hope you are right, but my experience with games is as follows:

If copy-pasta is possible, copy-pasta will happen.

It’s highly more likely with the Reactor premise.

^^^ Keep in mind that story stuff in fractals is intentionally vague. In either case, Abbadon or Reactor, I don’t think they would really tell us what was going on.

There would only be environmental/visual hints, as in the other fractals.

There was a section in the novel, if I recall correctly, that Rytlock launched Eir far into the air as impromptu transportation(as well as the other characters). I got the impression from that scene that he, being the Charr, was the only one with the strength to do that.

Though I think it depends on what their weapons/skills were.

Grumpdogg.6910:

Poor people should be banned from voting.

We are the 1%